Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger 08 Jul 2015 02:16 UTC

On 7/7/2015 10:08 PM, Craig Berry wrote:
> What really matters here, in the domain of ultra-high velocity
> railguns, is mass delivered to the target. For comparable mass and
> density, it really doesn't much matter whether the mass arrives as a
> solid or a plasma. It will be the latter a microsecond after impact
> anyway.

So it would be theoretically possible for the projectile mass to be
converted to plasma during the "firing" process and then travel at
100km/s or even 1000km/s?

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